The course features a rocky twisty trail up hill for first 1200. At the 1.5 mile mark and the 2.5 mile mark there is another fairly steep 150 meter hill. Much of the course is a an out-and-back that has very little easy spectator access, so there is not much external cheering and encouragement available. The time difference between this course and most 3.0 mile courses is about two minutes for the boys and about three minutes for the girls. To wit: course record is 17:50 by Danny Stalters who ran 15:30 at Hayward and 15:46 at Woodward. The course record for girls is now 21:43, held by Jamie Busby of College Park, who has dipped under 19:00 most of the season already.